Ok, try booting the master SMP (even if it is a UP box, it's ok). That
should do it. Not sure why, but I seem to remember having that problem
when I had an SMP master and UP nodes.
Keith
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Carpenter, Dean wrote:
> Ah ha. OK, I found that on the CD, and installed it
>> rpm -i kernel-smp-2.2.17-33.beo.i686.rpm
>> No problem, and I see the new kernel in /boot and the modules in
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-beosmp.
>> So I change /boot/vmlinuz to point to the new kernel, and then create the
> netboot image ...
>> beoboot -d -2 -n -k /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-33.beosmp -m
> /lib/modules/2.2.17.beosmp
>> That chews for a little while, and the debug output looks OK. I noticed
> that it recreated the /var/beowulf/boot.img file though ... Why ?
>> In any case, I reboot on of the dual nodes with the *existing* boot floppy
> (created last week from beosetup gui) and it appears to come up OK, but not
> all the way. The log shows that it's still trying to use the UP modules in
> /lib/modules/2.2.17.beo.
>> Dang. I thought the phase 1 kernel on the floppy was a generic one (from
> /boot/vmlinuz.beoboot, which is just a symlink to
> vmlinuz-2.2.17-33.beobeoboot :) just to get to the master node to boot the
> "real" kernel - the smp one just installed. Hmmm, OK, recreate the floppy
> from the gui. I don't think it should be different, but just in case.
>> This is worse. It dies while loading vmlinuz, asking for another boot disk.
>> Ah ha (again). I just noticed module-info in /boot, pointing to the UP
> modules-info-2.2.17-33.beo file rather than the smp one. I just changed
> that and rebooted a couple of the dual nodes. We'll see.
>> Nope. Systems booted from the old floppy still try to use the UP modules in
> /lib/modules/2.2.17-33.beo
>> So where exactly do all the kernels fit in ?
>> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-33.beobeoboot aka vmlinuz.beoboot
> /var/beowulf/boot.img What's the connection between these
> for the floppy ?
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-33.beosmp
>> Sorry for being thick here ...
>> --
> Dean Carpenter
> Principal Architect
> Purdue Pharma
>dean.carpenter at pharma.com>deano at areyes.com> 94TT :)
>>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jag [mailto:agrajag at linuxpower.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 3:22 PM
> To: Carpenter, Dean
> Cc: 'beowulf at beowulf.org'
> Subject: Re: SMP support with the scyld package
>>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Carpenter, Dean wrote:
>> > Hummm. I see that it ships with the 2.2.17 sources, but I don't see any
> SMP
> > kernels lying around ...
>> It's in the kernel-smp package.
>ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/beowulf/current/RPMS/i686/kernel-smp-2.2.17-33.beo.i> 686.rpm
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